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	<description>A listserv covering Burma</description>
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		<title>Irrawaddy: Mind the gap, Tint Swe tells Rangoon journals</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/27/irrawaddy-mind-the-gap-tint-swe-tells-rangoon-journals/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/27/irrawaddy-mind-the-gap-tint-swe-tells-rangoon-journals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The head of Burma&#8217;s notorious censorship board, the Press Scrutiny and Registration Division (PSRD), summoned the editors of a number of Rangoon-based journals to his office on Wednesday to remind them that they still have to follow the board&#8217;s rules until a new media law is enacted.PSRD Director Tin Swe told the editors that Burma&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Voice of America: Documentary highlights Burma&#8217;s jailed political activists – Sarah Williams</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/27/voice-of-america-documentary-highlights-burmas-jailed-political-activists-%e2%80%93-sarah-williams/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/01/27/voice-of-america-documentary-highlights-burmas-jailed-political-activists-%e2%80%93-sarah-williams/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Director Jeanne Hallacy said former political prisoner and activist Ko Bo Kyi inspired her to make “Into the Current.”A documentary film about Burma’s political prisoners and the underground movement to help them premiered this week in Asia, drawing attention to the plight of the country’s activists as the government releases hundreds of prisoners in an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agence France Presse: Myanmar eases censorship for some: local media</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/12/12/agence-france-presse-myanmar-eases-censorship-for-some-local-media/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/12/12/agence-france-presse-myanmar-eases-censorship-for-some-local-media/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inside Burma]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmanet.org/news/?p=30305</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bangkok — Myanmar has loosened restrictions on dozens of business and crime publications, local media reported, but kept news titles in the grip of strict censorship rules.A total of 54 journals, magazines and books will no longer have to submit their content to censors before publication, according to a report in the Myanmar Times, after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democratic Voice of Burma: Business magazines go censor-free – Shwe Aung</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/12/07/democratic-voice-of-burma-business-magazines-go-censor-free-%e2%80%93-shwe-aung/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/12/07/democratic-voice-of-burma-business-magazines-go-censor-free-%e2%80%93-shwe-aung/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inside Burma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmanet.org/news/?p=30258</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Magazines covering business and crime will hit the newsstands on Friday untouched by the redactors in Burma’s notorious censor board, after amendments to media laws that allow certain publications to bypass official scrutiny.The government had tested the water with entertainment and health journals earlier this year, one of the first major signals that it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technology Review (US): Regimes use U.S. tech to censor citizens, study finds – David Talbot</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/11/10/technology-review-us-regimes-use-u-s-tech-to-censor-citizens-study-finds-%e2%80%93-david-talbot/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/11/10/technology-review-us-regimes-use-u-s-tech-to-censor-citizens-study-finds-%e2%80%93-david-talbot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmanet.org/news/?p=29952</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After revelations that it supplied Syria with Internet spy tools, a U.S. company faces similar allegations about Myanmar.A company whose Internet-filtering servers were recently found to have been used by Syria&#8217;s regime for censorship is facing a new research report that Myanmar, too, uses its technology—and that the Syrian use is wider than acknowledged. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mizzima News: Rangoon chief minister warns journalists ‘be careful’ reporting news – Min Thet</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/11/09/mizzima-news-rangoon-chief-minister-warns-journalists-%e2%80%98be-careful%e2%80%99-reporting-news-%e2%80%93-min-thet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/11/09/mizzima-news-rangoon-chief-minister-warns-journalists-%e2%80%98be-careful%e2%80%99-reporting-news-%e2%80%93-min-thet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inside Burma]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rangoon Region Chief Minister Myint Swe has warned journalists who cover Rangoon Region assembly news to be careful in reporting on events.“Be careful what you write,” he said. “We are a government. [Because of a news report], people thought that the mayor rejected a motion to distribute more drinking water to the city. If people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irrawaddy: Significance of pictures in Burmese politics – Wai Moe</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/11/01/irrawaddy-significance-of-pictures-in-burmese-politics-%e2%80%93-wai-moe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/11/01/irrawaddy-significance-of-pictures-in-burmese-politics-%e2%80%93-wai-moe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inside Burma]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmanet.org/news/?p=29798</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hanging photographs is a normal action for most human beings, but displaying pictures in Burma can have important connotations regarding who is in charge of the country or respected by its people.On Oct. 21, Burma’s Lower House (Pyithu Hluttaw) discussed “whether it is right to rehang” pictures of Burma’s independence hero Aung San on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democratic Voice of Burma: Suu Kyi, Zarganar to host film festival – Thurein Soe</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/10/28/democratic-voice-of-burma-suu-kyi-zarganar-to-host-film-festival-%e2%80%93-thurein-soe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/10/28/democratic-voice-of-burma-suu-kyi-zarganar-to-host-film-festival-%e2%80%93-thurein-soe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 23:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inside Burma]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmanet.org/news/?p=29752</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Burma’s independence day in January next year will be marked with the launch of a film festival organised by two of the country’s leading pro-democracy luminaries, opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and comedian Zarganar.Billed as the Art of Freedom Film Festival, it will open on 31 December and showcase both short films and documentaries. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Xinhua: 3 CCTV channels start launching in Myanmar</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/10/28/xinhua-3-cctv-channels-start-launching-in-myanmar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/10/28/xinhua-3-cctv-channels-start-launching-in-myanmar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 23:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inside Burma]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmanet.org/news/?p=29750</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yangon &#8212; Three China Central Television ( CCTV) channels &#8212; CCTV-4 (Chinese), CCTV-News (English) and CCTV-9 (Documentary) started launching in Myanmar Thursday in cooperation with Myanmar&#8217;s semi-government MRTV-4 and Sky Net.MRTV-4 is operated by the state-run Myanmar Radio and Television (MRTV) with the cooperation of the private Forever media Group, while the Sky Net is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democratic Voice of Burma: Burma to drop ban on satellite TV – Shwe Aung</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/10/20/democratic-voice-of-burma-burma-to-drop-ban-on-satellite-tv-%e2%80%93-shwe-aung/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/10/20/democratic-voice-of-burma-burma-to-drop-ban-on-satellite-tv-%e2%80%93-shwe-aung/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inside Burma]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmanet.org/news/?p=29610</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Licences for satellite television receivers are likely to be issued again in Burma following a six-year ban claimed at the time by observers to be an attempt to control the flow of information into the country.The notification came from communications minister Thein Htun after a question about the possibility of reintroducing satellite permits was raised [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irrawaddy: Exiled journalist denies taking flight to Rangoon, being detained – Wai Moe</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/10/12/irrawaddy-exiled-journalist-denies-taking-flight-to-rangoon-being-detained-%e2%80%93-wai-moe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/10/12/irrawaddy-exiled-journalist-denies-taking-flight-to-rangoon-being-detained-%e2%80%93-wai-moe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inside Burma]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmanet.org/news/?p=29406</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sein Kyaw Hlaing, a veteran Burmese journalist who previously worked in exile for the BBC Burmese Service and is currently a contributor to Radio Free Asia, issued a statement over the Internet on Sunday denying that he had taken any airplane flight to Rangoon or been detained at the airport and then interrogated by Burmese [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reporters Without Borders: Zarganar freed, but DVB video journalists still held</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/10/12/reporters-without-borders-zarganar-freed-but-dvb-video-journalists-still-held/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/10/12/reporters-without-borders-zarganar-freed-but-dvb-video-journalists-still-held/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Press Release]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmanet.org/news/?p=29387</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Reporters Without Borders hails today’s release of the blogger and comedian Zarganar from Myitkyina prison, in the northern state of Kachin, under a “general amnesty” affecting dozens of political prisoners, but urges the government to pursue this conciliatory policy by freeing all detained bloggers and journalists including 17 Democratic Voice of Burma video journalists.“We are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Associated Press: Myanmar censorship boss calls for own department to be abolished, press restrictions lifted</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/10/11/the-associated-press-myanmar-censorship-boss-calls-for-own-department-to-be-abolished-press-restrictions-lifted/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/10/11/the-associated-press-myanmar-censorship-boss-calls-for-own-department-to-be-abolished-press-restrictions-lifted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inside Burma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmanet.org/news/?p=29379</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bangkok — The director of Myanmar’s state censorship board has said his own department should be abolished to allow greater press freedom in the Southeast Asian nation. U.S.-funded Radio Free Asia cited Tint Swe, the director of the country’s Press Scrutiny and Registration Department, as saying in an interview that censoring the media is not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Voice of America: CPJ: Press freedom in Burma still restricted</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/09/20/voice-of-america-cpj-press-freedom-in-burma-still-restricted/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/09/20/voice-of-america-cpj-press-freedom-in-burma-still-restricted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 19:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmanet.org/news/?p=28932</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A new report says press censorship in Burma remains &#8220;arbitrary, intensive, and highly restrictive,&#8221; despite the new government&#8217;s promise of reform. The study released Monday by the Committee to Protect Journalists says there has been a surge of privately owned and operated publications in recent years, but they are heavily censored and often forced to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reporters Sans Frontiers: Many news websites unblocked, but 17 journalists and three netizens still held</title>
		<link>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/09/20/reporters-sans-frontiers-many-news-websites-unblocked-but-17-journalists-and-three-netizens-still-held/</link>
		<comments>http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/09/20/reporters-sans-frontiers-many-news-websites-unblocked-but-17-journalists-and-three-netizens-still-held/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>editor, BurmaNet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Press Release]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.burmanet.org/news/?p=28922</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Reporters Without Borders has confirmed that access to a number of previously banned foreign news websites including Youtube, BBC, Reuters, The Bangkok Post, Straits Times, Radio Free Asia, Irrawaddy, Democratic Voice of Burma, and the Burmese version of Voice of America has been unblocked. Internet connections nonetheless continue to be very slow.“The unblocking of websites [...]]]></description>
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